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...to paraplegic antiwar activist. Stone won an Academy Award for directing that movie and received a fourth career nomination for his writing. The year 1991 saw the release of both
JFK, a polarizing investigation of the circumstances surrounding the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy, and
The Doors, a stylish account of the rise and fall of...

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Jones

...from Larry McMurtry’s western novel of the same name. Jones then played Clay Shaw, a Louisiana businessman suspected of conspiring to assassinate U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy in
JFK (1991); the role earned him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. His turn as a deputy U.S. marshall pursuing a doctor (played by Harrison Ford) wrongfully accused of...

Oldman

...adaptation of Tom Stoppard’s
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990). His work in several American films led to roles as assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in
JFK (1991) and as the title character in
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). Oldman’s cameo as a patois-spouting, dreadlocked drug dealer in the Tony Scott bloodbath ...

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